GEOL651

Prerequisite: MATH115; and non-degree-seeking students require the permission of the instructor. Credit only granted for: GEOL789V or GEOL651. Formerly: GEOL789V. Practical approach to basic statistics applied in the geosciences. Experimental design, elementary statistics and probability, sequence analysis, spatial analysis, linear regression, nonparametric statistics, bivariate, multivariate and principal components analysis of variance, hypothesis testing. Problem sets and participatory discussion of statistical applications in the current literature.